Joe Daonet is a computer network administrator. That means he spends many hours playing computer games and waiting for a glitch in the net. He has been out of college just long enough to realize that he has found what might be the most boring job in the world. In his book, Darwin Among the Machines, George Dyson explored the idea that machine intelligence might arise spontaneously inside the internet. Dyson's idea about the possible origin of machine intelligence is similar to current thinking about the origin of life from some spontaneously assembled collection of molecules.